NRS 329.020Declaration of policy.It
is the purpose of this chapter to protect and perpetuate public land survey
corners and information concerning the location of such corners by requiring
the systematic establishment of monuments and recording of information
concerning the location of such corners, thereby providing for property
security and a coherent system of property location and identification, and
eliminating the repeated necessity for re-establishment and relocations of such
corners once they are established and located.

NRS 329.030Definitions.As
used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and
terms defined in NRS 329.040 to 329.130, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them
in such sections.

(Added to NRS by 1969, 630)

NRS 329.040“Accessory to a corner” defined.“Accessory
to a corner” means any exclusively identifiable physical object whose spatial
relationship to the corner is recorded. Accessories to a corner may be bearing
trees, bearing objects, monuments, reference monuments, line trees, pits,
mounds, charcoal-filled bottles, steel or wooden stakes or other physical
objects.

(Added to NRS by 1969, 630)

NRS 329.050“Board” defined.“Board”
means the State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.

NRS 329.060“Corner” defined.“Corner”
means a property corner, a property-controlling corner, a public land survey
corner or any combination of these.

(Added to NRS by 1969, 630)

NRS 329.070“Corner record” defined.“Corner
record” means a written record of the establishment or restoration of a corner
or accessory to a corner.

(Added to NRS by 1969, 630)

NRS 329.080“Monument” defined.“Monument”
means a physical structure that occupies the exact position of a corner.

(Added to NRS by 1969, 630)

NRS 329.090“Property-controlling corner” defined.“Property-controlling
corner” for a property means a public land survey corner or any property corner
which does not lie on a property line of the property in question, but which
controls the location of one or more of the property corners of such property.

(Added to NRS by 1969, 630)

NRS 329.100“Property corner” defined.“Property
corner” means a geographic point on the surface of the earth which is on and a
part of a property line and controls the location of such line.

(Added to NRS by 1969, 630)

NRS 329.110“Public land survey corner” defined.“Public
land survey corner” means any corner actually established and monumented in an
original survey or resurvey used as a basis of legal description for issuing a
patent for the land to a private person from the United States Government.

(Added to NRS by 1969, 630)

NRS 329.120“Reference monument” defined.“Reference
monument” means a special monument which does not occupy the same geographical
position as the corner itself, whose spatial relationship to the corner is
recorded and which serves to witness the corner.

(Added to NRS by 1969, 630)

NRS 329.130“Surveyor” defined.“Surveyor”
means any person who is licensed pursuant to chapter
625 of NRS to practice land surveying.

NRS 329.140Recording of corner record required; exception.Except as otherwise provided in NRS 329.145, a surveyor shall complete, sign and
record or cause to be recorded with the county recorder of the county in which
the corner is situated a written record of the establishment or restoration of
a public land survey corner. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 329.145, such a recording must be made for every
public land survey corner and accessory to the corner which is established,
re-established, monumented, remonumented, restored, rehabilitated, perpetuated
or used as control in any survey. The survey information must be recorded
within 90 days after the survey is completed.

NRS 329.160Information required for recording corner record prescribed by
regulation.The Board shall, by
regulation, prescribe the information which is to be included in the corner
record and the form in which such corner record is to be presented and
recorded.

NRS 329.170County recorder to keep records.The
county recorder of the county containing the corner shall:

1. Receive the completed corner record and
preserve it in a hardbound book. The books must be numbered in numerical order.

2. Make such records available for public
inspection during all usual office hours.

(Added to NRS by 1969, 631; A 1975, 1426; 1979, 1126)

NRS 329.180Reconstruction or rehabilitation of monuments.Where a corner record of a public land survey
corner is required to be recorded pursuant to the provisions of this chapter,
the surveyor must reconstruct or rehabilitate the monument of such corner and
the accessories to such corner so that such corner and accessories may be
readily located at any time in the future.

NRS 329.190Corner records: Signatures.No
corner record may be recorded unless it is signed by a professional land
surveyor or, in the case of any agency of the United States Government, by the
official making the survey, who shall designate his or her official title and
the agency for which he or she is employed.

NRS 329.200Filing of preexisting corner records.Corner
records concerning corners established, re-established or restored may be filed
before July 1, 1969.

(Added to NRS by 1969, 631)

NRS 329.210Penalties.Any
surveyor who fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter is guilty of
gross negligence, incompetency or misconduct in the practice of land surveying
as a professional land surveyor and is subject to disciplinary action pursuant
to NRS 625.460.